A forced ipo happens if they have over 500 share holders and $10 million in assets. It is easiest to avoid the shareholder amount.

I suspect this will drive a lot of people over here.

If it gets posted, then you upvote, and it gets banned later they’ll issue a mass warning to everyone that up voted out before the ban.

If it is linked to the Internet then it’ll be hit by crawlers. Their “trap” isn’t any how many show up but how long each bot stays on their individual site.

Your last sentence highlights the problem. I can have a bot that posts for me. Also, if an authority is in charge of issuing the certificates then they have an incentive to create some fake ones.

Bots are vastly more useful as the ratio of bots to humans drops.

A bot can do that and do it at scale.

I think we are going to need to reconceptualize the Internet and why we are on here at all.

It already is practically impossible to stop bots and I’m a very short time it’ll be completely impossible.

So long as it is humans posting this will be a problem. The benefit of a federated system is that you can’t compromise the person at the top and then everything collapses.

I just jumped on here today (from seeing this article on Reddit) but my understanding is that the advantage is that the CEO can’t decide he wants to suck authoritarian cock and destroy our ability to discuss and/or organize.

(Admittedly I joined the biggest server I could find so I kind of violated that idea as well).